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Everyday Utopia and Radical Imagination with Kristen Ghodsee

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The Nuclear Family in a Single Family Home

The nuclear family is such a reified ideal that many people somehow try to give it a prehistory of naturalness. It's not the best possible blueprint for human flourishing, but rather an outcome of historically contingent social, political and economic arrangements. And as you pointed out, we spend a lot of time in community with other people when we go away to school or if you happen to live in a collective flat in your twenties.

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